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Paul A. Crotty

Paul Austin Crotty (born April 1, 1941) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Early in his career, he worked as a lawyer at Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, and in the 1980s, he was Commissioner of New York City's Office of Financial Services, as well as Finance Commissioner and commissioner for Housing Preservation & Development. He was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 2005.

Paul A. Crotty was born in Buffalo, New York in 1941 to Margaret and Peter Crotty. His father, Peter J. Crotty, was the son of an immigrant longshoreman. Peter Crotty was a lawyer and a politician. The family consisted of six brothers and a daughter; all six of the family's sons became lawyers, including Paul.

Crotty received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1962 and a Bachelor of Laws from Cornell Law School in 1967.

He was also in the United States Navy Reserve from 1962 to 1968.[citation needed]

He was a law clerk to Judge Lloyd Francis MacMahon of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, from 1967 to 1969.

Crotty entered private practice in New York City at the prominent law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, working there as an associate from 1969 to 1976, and then as a partner from 1976 to 1984, and from 1988 to 1993.

In 1973, he lost a Democratic primary for City Council in on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

In February 1984, he was appointed Commissioner of the city's Office of Financial Services, and later that year became Finance Commissioner. From 1984 to 1988, he held several government positions in the Office of Financial Services for the City of New York. He was a commissioner in that office in 1984, and then Commissioner of Finance from 1984 to 1986, and a commissioner for Housing Preservation & Development until 1988.

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